Preview article up on TTB to whet your appetite: Preview: Kings of War's Upcoming Book Fracture Lays Out the Game's Future - Tabletop Battles
Really impressed with Fracture, the breadth of changes is really nice and I am thrilled to see so many meta adjustments and flavor boosts across more than just the four new expanded factions. Looking forward to tinkering myself and seeing where people take their armies, new and old.
Is anyone in the US selling these books? Or should I just order direct from Mantic?
The artwork in the Fracture book is fantastic! Quite a step up for Mantic. Congratulations!
Does anyone know when the Fracture armies will be added to the Companion? Not sure what’s the official release date for the book.
I think the issue with the ferauns is that they look like a mixture of three creatures - cat, goat, man. If they were cat/man or goat/man they would look less weird. The centaurs are a mixture of cat/goat/horse/man - too many!
As for the Beasts of Nature - they make me wonder about Mantic’s quality control. Loads of great figures out recently but these slip through? Someone needed to say “no, try again” at some point.
1 July has been announced for companion updates.
Great. Thank you
Companion changes from the new book have gone live.
Note that the 4 forces from Fracture (FoN, Basilea, FoA & ogres) have new ’XXX 2026’ armies in the Companion - the others just have updated units/rules etc.
Looks like they haven’t implemented optional slot swaps yet 
And the situation is worse now, with plenty of specialists dropping to core (making it harder to unlock support) …
But otherwise thrilled to be tinkering with relatively few errors!
How does having specialist drop to core make it harder to get support? It’s exactly the same 
Hmm. Just did some experimenting and I guess you’re right. The thought originally occurred to me on an Undead list where all my ghouls were now aux, so I was getting a lot of unlock errors, which weren’t the core werewolves’ fault 
(The ghoul situation has since been remedied!)
The unlock swap is a problem for support to special tho, as y’all know. I can’t take any flavor of soulbane in my TK if I want to take my ravagers and impalers, for example.
I’ve had a bit of time to read and digest the book and my overall conclusion is that I think it’s really good!
Here’s why (in no particular order)
Rather than pick at any little bits and pieces that I think should be different (we’ll all have them, everyone has an opinion) I’m focusing on how this was pretty well executed and builds on the prior stuff. The next book (Arrogance) will hopefully continue this improvement and continue mopping up any bits and pieces whilst introducing cool lore and expanded armies!
Haven’t played basileans or abyss enough to comment on their list changes.
That’s actually very annoying, with the Fracture armies being doubled and the ‘outdated’ lists not in a special section.
Was already annoying last edition when TR and FoA got their CoK Update, but now there are even 4 armies and more will come.
If these changes are official, they should not be listed with ‘2026’, but the original version should be relocated -to the bottom or whatsoever.
There will be people using the old lists for tournaments and things in the next few days, week of even months as people won’t have had time to remake lists. If they get rid of the old ones all these people’s lists would be broken. Makes sense to have both for a while. Should probably get rid after a set time though.
EDIT: just reread the bit about naming. Yes you’re right, something like ogre (old) for the old one would be better! Not sure how I misread your post so badly. It’s late here so that’s my excuse!
No problem. Maybe because I used a wrong word. Replace or removed is kind of ‘erase’ in English, but I associate it more with 'change the place’.
Another thing which got me confused. There are 2 kinds of Commanders - Warlords and Champions.
No character in the game should be called either of them. But the ogres do have a Warlord called ‘Warlord’.
As you are allowed to use warrior hordes only with the character named ‘Warlord’, it quite confusing if the Companion tells you that a Warlord is required.
Really glad to hear that the lore landed well - it’s all a team effort, but I guess I could just about call myself the primary author of the abyssal and Basilean sections in the book. Abyssal stuff was a lot harder to write, so thank you for the feedback!
Great job!
I should clarify - only the lore stuff. I had no input into anything gameplay or rules wise, so wouldn’t want to claim any credit for the excellent job in those areas!
It seems they are listening to some of our feedback, but I’m not a fan of them taking units from and army and then selling them back to us. I.E. Abyssal Guard. With it now needing these books to get units, orders, list building versatility and balance updates, this hobby just go more expensive, making it less appealing. I know they are a company and need to make money, but needing many books with a high cost is given me GW flashbacks. And that’s not great.